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The unreal and the real: selected stories of Ursula K. Le Guin
By Ursula K Le Guin, Ursula K. Le Guin. 2012
Two-volume set of selected short stories from Ursula K. Le Guin, both published in 2012. Volume one, Where on Earth,…
focuses on stories of realism with earthly settings. Volume two, Outer Space, Inner Lands, focuses on otherworldly settings and subjects. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2012The found and the lost: the collected novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin
By Ursula K Le Guin. 2016
Every novella by Ursula K. Le Guin, an icon in American literature, collected for the first time--and introduced by the…
legendary author--in one breathtaking volume. Ursula K. Le Guin has won multiple prizes and accolades from the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters to the Newbery Honor, the Nebula, Hugo, World Fantasy, and PEN/Malamud Awards. She has had her work collected over the years, but never as a complete retrospective of her longer works as represented in this book. 2016.The unreal and the real: selected stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. volume two, Outer space, inner lands
By Ursula K Le Guin. 2012
The second of a two-volume set, this collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's short fiction features stories with otherworldly settings…
and subjects. Includes classic stories such as "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas," "Semley's Necklace," and "She Unnames Them."Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2012Tales from Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle)
By Ursula K Le Guin, Ursula Le Guin, Úrsula K. Le Guin. 2001
Contains five tales providing background to Le Guin's Earthsea novels. The short novella, "Finder," reveals how the school on Roke…
was founded. Another tale relates the story of a young man who would rather be a musician than a mage. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2001The lathe of heaven
By Ursula K Le Guin, Úrsula K. Le Guin. 2000
When George Orr realizes that his dreams produce an alternate reality, he is so distraught that he consults a psychiatrist.…
After a few sessions, Dr. Haber wants to manipulate George's dreams to solve the world's political, environmental, and population problems. Some strong language. 1971A fisherman of the inland sea: science fiction stories
By Ursula K Le Guin, Úrsula K. Le Guin. 1994
Eight tales that delve into the relationship between perception and reality, and explore the "churten" effect, a way of moving…
objects and people between distant worlds at the speed of light. In the title story, a churten researcher is flung backward in time to face a choice of alternative futures. Some strong languageThe Earthsea trilogy (Earthsea)
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1979
As a talented, but arrogant, student of wizardry, Sparrowhawk summons an evil spirit who threatens the entire world of Earthsea.…
Contains "Wizard of Earthsea", "Tombs of Atuan", and "Farthest shore". For Junior High readers. 1979. (Earthsea)City of illusions (The hainish Ser.)
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1996
Scattered here and there, small groups of humans live in a state of semi-barbarism. Lost are the skills, science and…
knowledge that had been Earth's in the golden age of the League of Worlds. And each time a colony of Earthmen tries to rekindle the embers of a half-forgotten technology, the Shing, the mind-despoilers of Terra, crush them out. 1996.Always coming home
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1985
A rich and diffuse portrait of the ethnology and the sexual roles and relationships in a future, vaguely Amerindian society…
in northern California. Based on human values, the group shuns the use of most high technology. The novel chronicles the life of a woman, Stone Telling, and includes folk tales, poems, descriptions of rituals and beliefs, and plays. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1985.A fisherman of the inland sea: science fiction stories
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1996
A collection of stories highlight such objects of the imagination as a starship that sails on the wings of song,…
musical instruments that are played at funerals only, and orbiting arks designed to save a doomed humanity. Some strong language. 1996.The wind's twelve quarters: stories
By Ursula K Le Guin. 2004
A retrospective collection of 17 of the Nebula Award winner's best short fiction pieces. The stories range from fantasy to…
intriguing scientific possibilities, from medieval settings to the future. For high school and adult readers. 2004, c1975.The lathe of heaven (Gollancz SF)
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1972
The left hand of darkness (The hainish Ser.)
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1969
An envoy from a galactic community arrives on the world of Winter where all humans are hermaphrodites. Drawn into the…
local politics, the envoy is forced to reconsider attitudes toward human relationships. 1976, c1969.The eye of the heron
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1978
The left hand of darkness
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1976
Confused and afraid, a lone human becomes the pawn in an intrigue on Gethen, a planet inhabited by creatures that…
are neither male nor female. They are not neuters but have the potential to be either man or woman. Originally published in 1969. Hugo and Nebula AwardsFour ways to forgiveness
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1995
Four interconnected novellas that all take place on the twin planets Werel, a slave-owning oligarchy, and Yeowe, Werel's subjugated colony,…
which eventually rebels and wins independence. The protagonist of A Woman's Liberation is a former slave, who escapes one kind of servitude only to discover its existence in another form. Some descriptions of sexAlways coming home
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1985
A rich and diffuse portrait of the ethnology and the sexual roles and relationships in a future, vaguely Amerindian society…
in northern California. Based on human values, the group shuns the use of most high technology. The novel chronicles the life of a woman, Stone Telling, and includes folk tales, poems, descriptions of rituals and beliefs, and plays. Some strong language and some descriptions of sexPlanet of exile
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1978
The natives of a distant planet live in distrust of a small colony of humans stranded there for six centuries.…
A threatened invasion by marauding nomads from the north brings the two societies into shaky alliance, but an alliance of another sort altogether determines the future of the planetThe wind's twelve quarters: short stories
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1975
A retrospective collection of 17 of the Nebula Award winner's best short fiction pieces. The stories range from fantasy to…
intriguing scientific possibilities, from medieval settings to the future. For high school and adult readersThe dispossessed: an ambiguous Utopia
By Ursula K Le Guin. 1975
The world of Urras is class-ridden, authoritarian and highly mechanised, while Anarres is totally unruled, an idealist anarchy. When Shevek,…
a brilliant Anarresti scientist, finds his ideas being stifled, he goes to Urras, but learns that all is not well there. 1975.